Bill Text: HI SB576 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Corrections; Commissaries; Audit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-06 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB576 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB576-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 91

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 576

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 576 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORRECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require a financial and management audit of the Department of Public Safety commissary operations and commissary operations of out-of-state commissaries where Hawaii inmates are confined.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and Community Alliance on Prisons.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

 

     Your Committee finds that commissaries at state correctional facilities provide an opportunity for inmates to purchase goods for personal use, but the prices of those goods are higher than those found in public retail stores.  This measure requires the Auditor to conduct an audit of the operations of the commissaries to determine if the markups are excessive.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing only a financial audit of the commissary operations of out-of-state contracted correctional facilities where Hawaii inmates are confined, based on information obtained pursuant to contract, as the Department of Public Safety's contract with out-of-state correctional facilities does not permit a management audit; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 576, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 576, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair